Volt is here

    A retired airline pilot living in New Jersey is the nation’s first owner of GM’s much-ballyhooed Chevrolet Volt hybrid electric vehicle.

    The AP reports that sixty-nine-year-old Jeffrey Kaffee of Parsippany returned early from a Florida vacation to take delivery of the vehicle Wednesday morning at a Chevy dealership in Denville.

    Kaffee told the Daily Record of Parsippany that he paid about $42,000 for the vehicle, trading in a 2005 Toyota Prius.

    Tip: click the Daily Record link – there’s video!

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